diff --git a/gi-annotation-syntax.patch b/gi-annotation-syntax.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ae5b6ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gi-annotation-syntax.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+From b0b5c92a77788e451cda8e78d7d9f3362d7b119a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Mike Gorse <mgorse@suse.com>
+Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:34:27 -0600
+Subject: [PATCH] tdf#102511: Fix gobject-introspection annotation syntax
+
+---
+ include/LibreOfficeKit/LibreOfficeKitGtk.h | 12 ++++++------
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/include/LibreOfficeKit/LibreOfficeKitGtk.h b/include/LibreOfficeKit/LibreOfficeKitGtk.h
+index a2312d6..dd35505 100644
+--- a/include/LibreOfficeKit/LibreOfficeKitGtk.h
++++ b/include/LibreOfficeKit/LibreOfficeKitGtk.h
+@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ GType                          lok_doc_view_get_type               (void) G_GNUC
+ 
+ /**
+  * lok_doc_view_new:
+- * @pPath: (nullable): (allow-none): LibreOffice install path. Pass null to set it to default
++ * @pPath: (nullable) (allow-none): LibreOffice install path. Pass null to set it to default
+  * path which in most cases would be $libdir/libreoffice/program
+  * @cancellable: The cancellable object that you can use to cancel this
+  * operation.
+@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ GtkWidget*                     lok_doc_view_new                    (const gchar*
+ 
+ /**
+  * lok_doc_view_new_from_user_profile:
+- * @pPath: (nullable): (allow-none): LibreOffice install path. Pass null to set it to default
++ * @pPath: (nullable) (allow-none): LibreOffice install path. Pass null to set it to default
+  * path which in most cases would be $libdir/libreoffice/program
+- * @pUserProfile: (nullable): (allow-none): User profile URL. Must be either a file URL or a
++ * @pUserProfile: (nullable) (allow-none): User profile URL. Must be either a file URL or a
+  * special vnd.sun.star.pathname URL. Pass non-null to be able to use this
+  * widget and LibreOffice itself in parallel.
+  * @cancellable: The cancellable object that you can use to cancel this
+@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ GtkWidget*                     lok_doc_view_new_from_user_profile  (const gchar*
+ /**
+  * lok_doc_view_new_from_widget:
+  * @pDocView: The #LOKDocView instance
+- * @pRenderingArguments: (nullable): (allow-none): lok::Document::initializeForRendering() arguments.
++ * @pRenderingArguments: (nullable) (allow-none): lok::Document::initializeForRendering() arguments.
+  *
+  * Returns: (transfer none): The #LOKDocView widget instance.
+  */
+@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ GtkWidget*                     lok_doc_view_new_from_widget        (LOKDocView*
+  * lok_doc_view_open_document:
+  * @pDocView: The #LOKDocView instance
+  * @pPath: (transfer full): The path of the document that #LOKDocView widget should try to open
+- * @pRenderingArguments: (nullable): (allow-none): lok::Document::initializeForRendering() arguments.
++ * @pRenderingArguments: (nullable) (allow-none): lok::Document::initializeForRendering() arguments.
+  * @cancellable:
+  * @callback:
+  * @userdata:
+@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ gboolean                        lok_doc_view_paste                 (LOKDocView*
+  * lok_doc_view_set_document_password:
+  * @pDocView: The #LOKDocView instance
+  * @pUrl: the URL of the document to set password for, as sent with signal `password-required`
+- * @pPassword: (nullable): (allow-none): the password, NULL for no password
++ * @pPassword: (nullable) (allow-none): the password, NULL for no password
+  *
+  * Set the password for password protected documents
+  */
+-- 
+2.6.6
+
diff --git a/libreoffice.changes b/libreoffice.changes
index 20374dd..a95b292 100644
--- a/libreoffice.changes
+++ b/libreoffice.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Mar 10 23:37:48 UTC 2017 - mgorse@suse.com
+
+- Add gi-annotation-syntax.patch: the (allow-none) annotations
+  weren't being parsed, leading to breakage on SLE (bsc#1028817)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Feb 27 13:59:24 UTC 2017 - tchvatal@suse.com
 
diff --git a/libreoffice.spec b/libreoffice.spec
index 610c860..51b368a 100644
--- a/libreoffice.spec
+++ b/libreoffice.spec
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ Patch4:         nlpsolver-no-broken-help.diff
 Patch5:         mediawiki-no-broken-help.diff
 # PATCH-HOTFIX-UPSTREAM: disable test that rounds wrongly on most archs
 Patch16:        libreoffice-hotfix-disablebrokenshapetest.patch
+Patch17:        gi-annotation-syntax.patch
 # try to save space by using hardlinks
 Patch990:       install-with-hardlinks.diff
 BuildRequires:  %{name}-share-linker
@@ -944,6 +945,7 @@ Provides additional %{langname} translations and resources for %{project}. \
 %patch4
 %patch5
 %patch16 -p1
+%patch17 -p1
 %patch990 -p1
 
 # Do not generate doxygen timestamp